HOME HISTORY COSMOLOGY THEORY DIVINATION GENOME RESOURCE VIDEO THEATRE BIO CONTACT
_________________________________________________________________________________________
52) Gen: Mountain
Hexagram:
C: Joining mountains; superior people think without leaving their place.
L: Stopping at the back, one does not have a body; walking in the garden, one does not see a person. No fault.
E: Nurturing energy by quietude.
_________________________________________________________________________________________
Lines:
1 Yin:
L: Stopping at the feet, there is no fault. It is beneficial to be always upright.
E: Being humble and not daring to act arbitrarily, one stops improper advancement early on, and maintains correctness always.
2 Yin:
L: Stopping at the calves doesn’t help out the following. The heart is unhappy.
E: Being too yielding without strength, one must use forced effort to stop weakness.
3 Yang:
L: Stopping at the waist breaks the backbone; danger inflames the heart.
E: Being too strong without flexibility, one must stop strength with forced effort.
4 Yin:
L: Stopping at the body, there is no blame.
E: This is stopping that governs oneself in weakness.
5 Yin:
L: Stopping at the jaws, one’s words are orderly. Regret vanishes.
E: Being weak yet balanced, one practices stopping in which one helps people, with appropriate speech, in spite of weakness.
6 Yang:
L: Careful stopping brings good fortune.
E: Stopping inside and outside, sublimating strength and weakness, stabilizing essence and forgetting feelings, one is still in absolute correctness.